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The first few minutes of Coffee Hour this Sunday will be spent on a brief update about plans for both saying goodbye to Rev. Jack and for finding someone to help us fill his shoes. The Interim Team of Susan Burnore, Michael Killoren, and Sally Carville, with input from both Jack and the UUA Transitions Office, is working on the process. We'll share whatever information we have so far, and take questions and suggestions.
Hope to see you Sunday!
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Outdoor Worship Service Viewing this Sunday @4pm. Details Below. |
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Pastor Jack's Sunday Morning
Zoom Discussion Group
9:15 am
Discussing Source #4 from which the UU tradition draws in our search for truth and meaning: Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God’s love by loving our neighbors as ourselves. Discussion starter: What have you learned and kept - and what have you had to unlearn and let go?
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Sunday Morning Women's Discussion/Covenant Group
9:15-10:15am
February 28: What's on your "Beloved Community" Playlist?
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March 1: Contemplative
“Precisely the Time” – concluding Black history month, beginning Women’s History Month - from novelist Toni Morrison.
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Noon Zoom Cafe Check-In,
March 2
UUSP’s mid-week opportunity to check in with one another and with our wider communities in the news.
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Learn how to meditate here. |
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Adult Religious Studies Zoom Discussion
March 3, 10:00am ONLY.
Details below in Adult Religious Education.
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The Board of Trustees meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month
5:30 -7:30 pm.
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Come volunteer or provide a dish every Friday at
Email Sabine for more details on how you can be of help!
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Pastor Jack's Weekly Message |
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In our search for truth and meaning, we draw from many sources. This past Sunday, the 9:15 discussion group pondered what truth and meaning each of us have drawn from the world’s religions. We have, it seems, gradually grown in understanding and caring from exploring such sources.
The 10:00am Wednesday discussion group, examining the mid-1800s Universalism and Unitarianism history, identified a similar growth process. Exposed to the world’s religions, both denominations began to see the necessity of helping people grow in understanding and caring even for those we don’t know.
As we move into a new presidency and hundreds and thousands of years of division, isn’t this still the challenge – to repair the breach - by weaving it together with understanding and caring.
Appreciate hearing your thoughts,
-Pastor Jack
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Wednesday Zoom Adult Religious Studies
Religious Studies Discussions
March 3 @ 10:00 am
Discussing selections from John Buehrens’ Universalists and Unitarians in America: A People’s History, chapter 4, “The Last ‘Gilded Age’ of Inequality - 1870-1905”.
The Zoom link will be sent out Tuesday. Contact Pastor Jack if you have questions or don't get the link on Tuesday
On the 3rd Wednesdays, we’ll forego a meeting so folks may attend the African American Heritage Association monthly presentations.
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Sunday Children's Religious Education:
February 28 at 11:30 am on YouTube.
February's Theme is
"Beloved Community"
Building Beloved Community and journeying toward spiritual wholeness isn’t easy. The proposed 8th UU Principle invites us to “accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
Dismantling means taking apart something which has been built up. Racism has been built up for over 400 years. If we want to do it, we must commit to the long haul and the hard work. And when that hard work gets really hard, we will be tempted to quit or run away. So, what’s one of the ways our faith guides us into becoming a people of Beloved Community? It tells us,
“Don’t run away when things get hard!”
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What? - You aren't receiving it the
RE Weekly Newsletter?
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Don’t forget our covenant groups continue to meet monthly, these days mainly on Zoom. We currently have eleven covenant groups in the congregation with over 100 people participating. A Covenant Group is a group of 10 or so people who gather regularly (at least monthly) to share and converse about how life is going for the individuals in the group and often for our wider circles of life. Contact Pastor Jack for help to join a group.
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Building a Community in a
Pandemic E-vents
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Outdoor Worship Service Viewing |
We will be hosting our
We will be following all church social distancing protocols.
The viewing will begin at 4:00pm this Sunday.
Please email Sarah Craig to reserve your place.
Hope to see you there!
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This Sunday’s Offering is one of our monthly Social Justice Share the Plate Sundays. The extra offerings, those that aren't part of our pledges, are allocated half to our Social Justice Committee’s UU’s Helping People programs and half to support our church's operation.
This month the Social Justice portion will go to Day Star Center, where individuals and families who live below the federal poverty level receive life necessities, helping to alleviate hunger, homelessness, and hopelessness. DayStar provides hope to those who have nowhere else to turn. The need continues to grow every day.
Ways to give:
1. Click on Giving dropdown
2. Select “Donate Now”
3. Logon to the Online Donation page
4. Select the following Social Justice category:
- Social Justice - Migrant Families
- Social Justice - UUs Helping People
- Social Justice - UUSC/GAYT
5. Enter the amount you want to donate
You may also send a check to the Church, noting in the memo; Share the Plate or UU's Helping People
~Thank you for your support~
The UUSP Social Justice Committee
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STAY ALERT:
We are entering the FAST lane!
FAST Rally is March 8 (via Zoom) to hear the research and strategies we hope to follow.
Our big Action is March 22 (via Zoom) to ask County officials to explain and change their intentions and practices.
Click below if you would like to be put on our UUSP/FAST contact list and/or get the Zoom invitation for the March Events.
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Tomorrow! February 27, 2021
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Thank you for your interest in
Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg!
Stay Safe and Stay Well!
Kelli DeGraw,
part of your Communications Team.
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Our UUSP staff members will continue their duties safely, cautiously to the fullest degree possible.
Thank you, Cathy, Jeanay, Jon, and James, And many volunteers!
During this challenging time, may we remember that we need to pay close attention to how everybody is doing and how we can help.
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Our mission is to be an inclusive, evolving religious community
that inspires spiritual and intellectual growth to make our world a better place.
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Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg
727.898.3294
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